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RUSH: Okay. Here come all the conspiracy theories now. The supernatural impact on the missing Malaysian airline flight. Yes, we even had a caller call it the “Malaysian Triangle” or whatever it was last week<\/a>. It\u2019s getting absurd now, is the point. All the conspiracy theories: “You know, that thing has been hijacked.” “You take the seats out of that thing and you can turn it into a giant nuclear bomb.” I guess. <\/p>\n

Anyway, greetings, my friends, and welcome back. Great to have you. I hope you had a great weekend. The telephone number here if you want to join us, 800-282-2882. The e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com. <\/line><\/p>\n

I forget who said it, and I\u2019m not even gonna get the saying right, but it might have been Sir Arthur Conan Doyle writing as Sherlock Holmes who said something like, once you have ruled out everything and the most improbable, the simplest explanation for any mystery is probably the case. The problem with trying to figure what happened with this airliner is that it\u2019s impossible to conceive of the simplest explanation because now we\u2019re at 10 days. Ten days that people have been watching television. Ten days of nameless, faceless experts all over every network, none of \u2019em know anything, all advancing theories. And so the starting point, before you know anything, all you know is they got a missing airplane. Don\u2019t know where it is. That\u2019s all we know now, essentially. <\/p>\n

We know some things about the changing in altitude, the changing direction, but we don\u2019t know really any more than we knew in the first 24 hours. But it\u2019s impossible to conceive of that because everybody has been treated to all of these possible explanations, some of them outlandish, some of them sensible. But you watch, when this is all said and done, the simplest explanation for what has happened here is what\u2019s gonna end up being the explanation. It isn\u2019t gonna be something extravagantly out of this world, my guess, and I\u2019m not positing myself as an expert here. I haven\u2019t even been watching. You know, Kathryn cannot believe that because I\u2019m such an aviation bug. It\u2019s not that I\u2019m not interested. Folks, I can\u2019t handle the media on this. I literally cannot. <\/p>\n

<\/a>We\u2019ve got anchors and anchorettes who don\u2019t know beans about even why an airplane flies. They couldn\u2019t explain the concept of air pressure differential or lift to you if their jobs depended on it. They go get guests, and nobody knows what happened here, so you got a bunch of people on TV who just want face time. I\u2019ll give you another example. I started making fun of the coverage last night, and Kathryn\u2019s really into this, so she kind of looked at me and rolled her eyes and walked out. I said, “Look what they\u2019re doing here.” On half of the screen you\u2019ve got the host and the guests and then on the other half you got B-roll. It\u2019s B-roll, a videotape, of a helicopter flying over water and we\u2019re supposed to think this is a live shot of somebody actually peering out of a helicopter looking for wreckage. <\/p>\n

Then they show us a gauge, just a meter, just any kind of an electronic gauge or meter while they\u2019re talking about pings. And we\u2019re supposed to think, “A-ha! Keep your eye on the gauge! Keep your eye on the gauge! We might see a ping!” And it\u2019s all such a show. I can\u2019t handle the media coverage of it, and it\u2019s like Obama\u2019s plunging approval rate. Yep, I know it, when it hits 30, call me. Well, 35, when it hits 35, call me. Other than that, I don\u2019t care. I know which way it\u2019s going, and I\u2019m stupefied that it\u2019s as high as it is. So when it gets down to where it should be, let me know. In the meantime, I\u2019m gonna entertain myself doing other things, whatever it might happen to be. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I mentioned earlier that I can\u2019t watch media coverage of the missing airliner. I just can\u2019t. I don\u2019t care what it is, because to me there isn\u2019t a person who knows that is appearing on TV. And yet they\u2019re all on TV. Everybody who knows nothing is on TV. Not to put them down, folks. I mean, it\u2019s just the nature of the beast. Go get people that don\u2019t know anything but might have an intriguing sounding opinion, whatever.<\/p>\n

This has just created this primordial soup atmosphere for conspiracy theories to just go through the roof, and it\u2019s now so far gone that the simple explanation is what\u2019s gonna end up being the truth here, but nobody\u2019s gonna accept it because they\u2019re so far gone now with potential theories that it\u2019s gonna be difficult. People are not gonna believe the truth once it\u2019s known. <\/p>\n

But my point, I just can\u2019t watch. I\u2019m interested in it. I\u2019m fascinated by it. But, if I do watch it, I start making jokes about it, irritating the people who are watching with me. Well, I\u2019ll give you an example. Watching one of the networks over the weekend, and some guest is talking about his theory of pilot suicide or it\u2019s flown to Pakistan and they\u2019re gonna kill all the passengers, put a giant nuclear bomb in it. And they\u2019re talking about the techniques of finding an airplane that\u2019s lost in the technological advancements we\u2019ve had with location data and pinging in the engines and how they continue to send information long after the plane disappeared. <\/p>\n

And, as they were talking about that, B-roll showed up of what looked like the Vietnamese Navy and a fishing trawler with a bunch of these Vietnamese military guys in their weird army hats with binoculars looking out over some body of water. So I said, “Look at that. They actually want us to believe that this is video of an actual search for this airplane” — and it\u2019s B-roll! Then, after that, we get a close-up of some kind of electronic gauge like on a dashboard or in some high-tech studio or equipment room. And so I said, “Look! Look! Maybe we\u2019ll see a ping! They\u2019re showing that gauge in case there\u2019s another ping from the airplane!” And the people sitting with me, “Would you stop?” <\/p>\n

And I said, “I\u2019m just watching this like the low-information crowd would be watching it.” So we had some audio sound bites nevertheless. Even though the coverage may leave me cold, I realize a lot of people are fascinated by it, so what are we gonna do? We got CNN. We chose this because they\u2019ve gone now into the supernatural to explain this. The explanation for what happened to Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 is now supernatural. And I think this series of bites illustrates, sums up, what CNN and the Drive-Bys have become. The news story is not “what did happen.” No. The story is “what might happen.” The story is not what did happen. And, of course, we don\u2019t know. <\/p>\n

The coverage, they could do everything they know about this in 10 minutes, is my point. Instead, they\u2019re doing it in segments of 24 hours. So they have to talk to experts about what could have happened, and that\u2019s become the news. Not what did happen, but what might have happened, and what might still happen, and then what would explain what has happened that we can\u2019t figure out and we don\u2019t know. <\/p>\n